Airline passenger subdued after rushing toward cockpit on Dulles flight

A woman aboard a United Airlines plane texted her husband that she was experiencing the “scariest moment” of her life after a passenger raced screaming toward the cockpit before being subdued by others on the plane, the woman’s husband said Tuesday.

Donna Tellam of Boulder, Colo., was returning from a business trip to London via Dulles International Airport on Monday night, according to her husband, Curt.

In a text, Donna Tellam told her husband that “some crazy guy just tried to get into the cockpit.” She also wrote that three passengers took the person down, right at her feet near her first-class seat.

None of the passengers aboard the flight were reported to be injured.

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